Malawi - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Malawi was 79.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.67 in 2002 and a minimum value of 79.08 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 82.67
1961 83.09
1962 82.86
1963 82.29
1964 81.79
1965 81.53
1966 82.35
1967 83.15
1968 83.88
1969 84.39
1970 84.62
1971 85.80
1972 86.54
1973 86.97
1974 87.24
1975 87.43
1976 88.27
1977 88.87
1978 89.27
1979 89.47
1980 89.46
1981 90.32
1982 90.75
1983 90.90
1984 91.02
1985 91.29
1986 90.64
1987 89.96
1988 89.12
1989 87.86
1990 85.97
1991 86.78
1992 87.02
1993 86.91
1994 86.87
1995 87.22
1996 88.04
1997 88.94
1998 89.83
1999 90.48
2000 90.71
2001 91.42
2002 91.67
2003 91.61
2004 91.47
2005 91.39
2006 91.43
2007 91.50
2008 91.52
2009 91.34
2010 90.90
2011 90.51
2012 89.71
2013 88.63
2014 87.45
2015 86.25
2016 84.84
2017 83.49
2018 82.13
2019 80.66
2020 79.08

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population